911 calls recount Remy's horrifying murder of Martel

Team 5 Investigates: Neighbors tried to stop Remy attack

Remy pleaded guilty to first-degree murder, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, assault and battery and violating a restraining order.

911 calls recount Remy's horrifying murder of Martel

Team 5 Investigates: Neighbors tried to stop Remy attack

Updated: 6:00 PM EDT Jun 23, 2014

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WALTHAM, Mass. —

Frantic and out-of-breath neighbors called police the night Jared Remy killed Jennifer Martel with horrific descriptions of Remy stabbing Martel to death on the patio of the Waltham apartment the two shared.

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The graphic descriptions of a savage scene of domestic violence on Aug. 15, 2013, are contained in five 911 calls released to Team 5 Investigates under a public records request.

Remy, 35, pleaded guilty last month to first-degree murder for the stabbing death of Martel, 27.

The calls begin with one neighbor describing the sounds of a fight they heard through their shared apartment wall: "Something is happening at my neighbor's house, a lot of really bad noises." The calls quickly grow more terrifying.

"Someone has a knife. He is killing someone. There is blood everywhere," one neighbor tells police. "They're on the patio. My neighbor has stabbed his wife," said a second neighbor who believed Remy and Martel were married.

The gruesome details of the case rippled throughout Massachusetts, after questions surfaced about why Remy, the son of the iconic Red Sox broadcaster, had not been held on bail after his arrest just two days before the slaying.

Remy was arrested on Aug. 13 for assault and battery after Martel told police that Remy had grabbed her neck and head and "slammed her face against a mirror" in the bathroom during an argument.

On the night of the murder, successive callers tell of their efforts to stop the attack.

"You've got a man stabbing his girlfriend to death. His name is Jared Remy. I tried to get him off her and he tried to stab me. I couldn't get him off her," another neighbor said.

Another caller said he was also attacked by Remy as he tried to stop the assault on Martel. "I cannot get him off of her. I tried to stop him and he tried to kill me. He is still there. His name is Jared Remy," he said.

Under Massachusetts law, Remy will spend the rest of his life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Editor's note: Personal information was redacted from the recordings. One call was not released by the Middlesex District Attorney’s Office because it would "disrupt the peace of mind of the family members and is thus an intimate detail, the disclosure of which constitutes an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy."